5.5 Integration of strings and dicts in the libraries
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5.5.2 Dicts in core data structures

Some predicates now produce structured data using compound terms and access predicates. We consider migrating these to dicts. Below is a tentative list of candidates. Portable code should use the provided access predicates and not rely on the term representation.

  • Stream position terms
  • Date and time records